dryly

English

Alternative forms

• drily

Etymology

dry +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• enPR: drīʹli, IPA^(key): /ˈdɹaɪ.li/

Adverb

dryly (comparative more dryly, superlative most dryly)

1. In a dry manner.
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     “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

Translations

in a dry manner

• Bulgarian: хладно (bg) (hladno), безчувствено (bg) (bezčuvstveno)
• Catalan: eixutament (ca), secament (ca)
• Finnish: kuivasti (fi)
• Galician: secamente
• Latvian: sausi
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: secamente
• Romanian: sec (ro), uscat (ro)
• Russian: су́хо (ru) (súxo)
• Spanish: secamente (es)